GRE Word List
PHOENIX
a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period
The meaning of the word phoenix is a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| fervor | intensity of feeling or expression |
| peripatetic | a follower of Aristotle or adherent of Aristotelianism |
| articulate | expressing oneself readily, clearly, and effectively |
| travail | work especially of a painful or laborious nature : toil |
| cadence | the beat, time, or measure of rhythmical motion or activity |
| spurious | born to parents not married to each other |
| dispatch | to send off or away with promptness or speed |
| swathe | a band used in swathing |
| putrescent | undergoing putrefaction : becoming putrid |
| stammer | to make involuntary stops and repetitions in speaking : stutter |